B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 15, 2023

Everyone’s a critic.

I’m OK with my own work, but I don’t consider it outstanding. Mom liked it, and that’s good enough for me.

That must have been a portrait of her.

Eh just waits till they is invents AI and all artists will be outta job.

Are you feeling a bit sketchy today?

Any fool can paint a picture; it takes a wise man to sell it.

Never heard that rule before. I’ve heard about them ever being quite satisfied with their work — keep going back to make slight changes — but that’s very different from hating it.

All art as beauty is within the eye of the beholder.

If the artist is a perfectionist, I can understand their not being satisfied with their work…

Always the eye of the beholder!!!!!

We artists don’t hate our own work, but we just see room for improvement. I’ve staged and taken thousands of pictures, but am still looking for that perfect shot.

Talent is subjective, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Ouch.

Not a critic one would dare argue with.

Modern art.

Frank Richards, who wrote one of the most famous autobiographies of WW1- encouraged by his former officer, robert graves (author of I claudius) wrote in the afterward that he’d heard authors hated sending the books to be published, like sending a child away from home but he was glad to be rid of the d*mn thing. his “Old soldiers Never die” and it’s prequal about his day in the army in india before the war "Old soldier sahib’ are very readable and show an amazing talent for writing.

Ouch.

My wife had an uncle who was actually famous for his Adirondack wildlife paintings. Excellent work, and a quiet, humble guy. She has another uncle who also painted, but thought very highly of his own work, and always complained that he wasn’t appreciated, etc.

“… I do not have to. Others hate it for me.”

Shut it FB just shut it. You are a mean woman.

The great artists of old, would always try to portray their subject in the most beautiful light possible. But in this cast, he is taking on an almost impossible task.

I spend 3-4 months on a painting until I get it as good as I can